60+ Best Eternity Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Eternity is time that never ends or that has no limits. Profoundly inspirational eternity quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.

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Famous Eternity Quotes

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Francis Bacon

Eternity is the divine treasure house, and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing. William Mountford

When Time is spent, Eternity begins. Helen Hunt Jackson

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. Henry David Thoreau

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Now is eternity; now is the immortal life. Richard Jefferies

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. Henry Van Dyke

Eternity: a moment standing still for ever. James Montgomery

What nature creates has eternity in it. Isaac Bashevis Singer

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience. Joseph Campbell

Eternity is the now that does not pass away Saint Augustine

If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits. Ludwig Wittgenstein

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you. Brigitte Bardot

Eternity is not something that begins after you’re dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally. Abraham Kuyper

Eternity was in our lips and eyes. William Shakespeare

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. Helen Hayes

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes. Friedrich Schiller

What we do in life ripples in eternity. Marcus Aurelius

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It gives me a deep comforting sense that things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal. Helen Keller

Eternity is a good man’s meditation; for by thinking thereon he preventeth sin. Saint Basil

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end  and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral. Maynard James Keenan

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity. Russell M. Nelson

Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity. Mother Teresa

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. Robert Green Ingersoll

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. Michael Ende

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non violence. Albert Camus

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Henry David Thoreau

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. Hermann Hesse

Thou know’st ’tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. William Shakespeare

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Khalil Gibran

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities. Robert Murray McCheyne

Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. C. S. Lewis

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is. Marianne Williamson

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. Robert Green Ingersoll

Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been. John Donne

Lives in eternity’s sunrise. William Blake

When you live in the light of eternity, your values change. Rick Warren

We don’t have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here. Susan L. Taylor

Eternity has no gray hairs. The flowers fade, the heart withers, people grow old and die, the world lies down in the sepulcher of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity. Reginald Heber

There is no dualism in the world of light. The conventions of relativity say that time slows down as one approaches the speed of light, but if one tries to imagine the point of view of a thing made of light, one must realize that what is never mentioned is that if one moves at the speed of light there is no time whatsoever One exists in eternity, one has become eternal One is then apart from the moving image; one exists in the completion of eternity. Terence McKenna

Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it. Moses Mendelssohn

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower. William Blake

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile. Thomas Carlyle

I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me. Clayton Christensen

Eternity is in love with the productions of time. William Blake

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this. Henry David Thoreau

Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity. Cornell Woolrich

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech as shallow as time. Thomas Carlyle

This life is only a prelude to eternity.

For those who love time is eternity. Henry Van Dyke

To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity’s whims, oppressed by endless dimensions. Frank Herbert

The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time; it exists in the past and the future. And remember, time consists of only two tenses, the past and the future. The present is not part of time, the present is part of eternity. Rajneesh

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Khalil Gibran